Overview

The Pesticides and the Chesapeake Bay Watershed Project has published a White Paper examining the impact of pesticides on the Bay watershed and proposing a range of actions, both to address key data gaps and to reduce pesticide contamination of Bay waters.

The report urges government agencies at all levels to make reducing pesticide pollution a priority, while simultaneously expanding and accelerating much-needed research. The paper — Pesticides and the Maryland Chesapeake Bay Watershed: Understanding the Problem and Identifying Solutions to Reduce the Impact of Pesticides on the Watershed was produced by Project staff with topical technical reviews provided by scientists from federal and state agencies and research institutions. The paper was not critiqued by independent reviewers, and while its recommendations were developed by the Project's scientific working groups; their inclusion did not indicate full endorsement of all or any of the recommendations by individual working group members.